Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Oct. 10 with 160 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 184,129. The most recent ruling is dated 10/10/14.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Oct. 15, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The Food and Drug Administration's Import Trade Auxiliary Communication System (ITACS) will be unable to upload documents from Oct. 16 at 9 p.m. until 3:01 a.m. on Oct. 17, said CBP in a CSMS message. Users should plan to submit documents either before or after this maintenance period, said CBP.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Oct. 14. This report (here) includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.
CBP released its Oct. 8 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 41). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Oct. 10, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
Customs agencies around the world recently completed a joint operation aimed at illicit tobacco trade that resulted in the seizure of 593 million cigarettes, 77 tons of smoking tobacco, and 31 tons of raw tobacco, according to an Oct. 13 press release from the World Customs Organization. In what the WCO is billing as “the first global Customs operation” focused on tobacco, 93 customs administrations participated in Operation GRYPHON between October 2013 and March 2014. Worldwide, they arrested over 100 people, and are still working on 35 investigations.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP will hold a Houston "Trade Day" event on Nov. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., said CBP in a CSMS message. "The event will provide members of the trade community the opportunity to speak one-on-one with representatives of federal agencies involved with imports and exports," it said. The event will be held at the Bayport Cruise Terminal, 4700 Cruise Road, Pasadena, Texas.
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CBP published the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refund (overpayments) of customs duties. For the quarter which began Oct. 1 and ends Dec. 31, the interest rates for overpayments will be 2 percent for corporations and 3 percent for non-corporations, and the rate of underpayments will be 3 percent for corporations and non-corporations. These interest rates are subject to change for the calendar quarter beginning Oct. 1 and ending Dec. 31, said CBP.